Caron

Caron is also known as háček or haček. It originated from dot above in Czech orthography. Note that the caron is easily confused with the similar looking breve ˘, especially in small font sizes.

Caron in Unicode

Characters with Caron

ˇ

◌̌

Ǎ

ǎ

Č

č

Ď

ď

DŽ

Dž

dž

Ě

ě

U+02C7

U+030C

U+01CD

U+01CD

U+010C

U+010D

U+010E

U+010F

U+01C4

U+01C5

U+01C6

U+011A

U+011B

Caron

Combining Caron

Latin Letter Capital A With Caron

Latin Letter Small A With Caron

Latin Capital Letter C With Caron

Latin Small Letter C With Caron

Latin Capital Letter D With Caron

Latin Small Letter D With Caron

Latin Capital Letter Dz With Caron

Latin Capital Letter D With Small Letter Z With Caron

Latin Small Letter Dz With Caron

Latin Capital Letter E With Caron

Latin Small Letter E With Caron

Note: May be confused with Modifier Letter Down Arrowhead, ˅ (U+02C5).

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the d.

Ǧ

ǧ

Ȟ

ȟ

Ǐ

ǐ

ǰ

Ǩ

ǩ

Ľ

ľ

Ň

ň

U+01E6

U+01E7

U+021E

U+021F

U+01CF

U+01D0

U+01F0

​ U+01E8

U+01E9

U+013D

U+013E

U+0147

U+0148

Latin Capital Letter G With Caron

Latin Small Letter G With Caron

Latin Capital Letter H With Caron

Latin Small Letter H With Caron

Latin Capital Letter I With Caron

Latin Small Letter I With Caron

Latin Small Letter J With Caron

Latin Capital Letter K With Caron

Latin Small Letter K With Caron

Latin Capital Letter L With Caron

Latin Small Letter L With Caron

Latin Capital Letter N With Caron

Latin Small Letter N With Caron

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the Ll.

Ǒ

ǒ

Ř

ř

Š

š

Ṧ

ṧ

Ť

ť

Ǔ

ǔ

Ǚ

U+01D1

U+01D2

U+0158

U+0159

U+0160

U+0161

U+1E66

U+1E67

U+0164

U+0165

U+01D3

U+01D4

U+01D9

Latin Capital Letter O With Caron

Latin Small Letter O With Caron

Latin Capital Letter R With Caron

Latin Small Letter R With Caron

Latin Capital Letter S With Caron

Latin Small Letter S With Caron

Latin Capital Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter T With Caron

Latin Small Letter T With Caron

Latin Capital Letter U With Caron

Latin Small Letter U With Caron

Latin Capital Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the t.

ǚ

Ž

ž

Ǯ

ǯ

U+01DA

U+017D

U+017E

U+01EE

U+01EF

Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron

Latin Capital Letter Z With Caron

Latin Small Letter Z With Caron

Latin Capital Letter Ezh With Caron

Latin Small Letter Ezh With Caron

Caron in Natlangs

Uses of Caron

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Change of manner of articulation	Czech	Řř /r̝/	This is a raised non-sonorant trill. Unaccented Rr stands for /r/.
Falling-rising (dipping) tone	Fon	Ǎǎ [a᷉], Ěě [e᷉], Ɛ̌ɛ̌ [ɛ᷉], Ǐǐ [i᷉], Ǒǒ [o᷉], Ɔ̌ɔ̌ [ɔ᷉], Ǔǔ [u᷉]	The falling-rising tone is not phonemic in Fon, but it is still marked with a caron. Tones are however not always marked at all. Note that Ɛ̌ɛ̌ and Ɔ̌ɔ̌ are not precomposed characters.
	Mandarin (Pinyin romanization)	Ǎǎ /a˨˩˦/, Ěě /ə˨˩˦/, Ǐǐ /i˨˩˦/, Ǒǒ /ə˨˩˦/, Ǔǔ /u˨˩˦/, Ǚǚ /y˨˩˦/	Pinyin was created in the 1950s, and its tone marks were based on the Bopomofo phonetic notation. Note that these tone values are based on the Beijing dialect.
Palatal phoneme	Czech	Ďď /ɟ/, Ěě /(j)ɛ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/	Ěě stands for an /ɛ/ that makes a previous Dd, Nn, Tt be /ɟ, ɲ, c/, a previous Bb, Ff, Pp, Vv be /bj, fj, pj, vj/, and a previous Mm /mɲ/. This letter is not found in other positions.
	Slovak	Ďď /ɟ/, Ľľ /ʎ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/	In Slovak handwriting ď, ľ and ť have an actual caron instead of an apostrophe.
Postalveolar consonant	Akkadian (DMG-umschrift transliteration), Ancient Egyptian (traditional transliteration)	Šš /ʃ/	Because Akkadian and Ancient Egyptian are extinct languages, the exact pronunciation can't be known for sure; so the phonemic representation here might not be entirely accurate.
	Arabic (DIN 31635 romanization, ISO/R 233 romanization)	Čč /t͡ʃ/, Ǧǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ~zˤ/	Čč and Žž represent the letters چ and ز which are not Arabic letters, but can be used in Arabic texts for transcribing sounds found in other languages.
	Arabic (ISO 233 romanization)	Ǧǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, Šš /ʃ/
	Arabic (Hans Wehr romanization)	ǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, š /ʃ/, ž /ʒ~zˤ/	ǧ was replaced by j in the fourth edition of this romanization scheme. ž represents the letter ز which is not an Arabic letter, but can be used in Arabic texts for transcribing sounds found in other languages. Hans Wehr romanization does not include capital letters.
	Czech, Latgalian, Latvian	Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/	Unaccented Cc stands for /ts/ in Czech, Latvian and Latgalian.
	Livonian	Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/
	North Sami (1979 orthography)	Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /dʒ/	Unaccented Cc stands for /ts/, and unaccented Zz for /dz/.
	Slovak	Čč /tʃ/, DŽdž /dʒ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/
Retroflex consonant	Serbian	Čč /ʈʂ/, DŽ Dž dž /ɖʐ/, Šš /ʂ/, Žž /ʐ/	These sounds are often transcribed as postalveolar /tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ/. DŽ is only used in all-caps text, and is consider the capital letter. Dž is used when only the first letter of a word is capitalized, and it is referred to as titlecase.
Uvular consonant	Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography and Rath's orthography)	Ǧǧ /ɢ/, Ǧv ǧv /ɢʷ/, X̌x̌ /χ/, X̌v x̌v /χʷ/	Note that X̌x̌ is not a precomposed letter.

Caron in Phonetic Transcription

Uses of caron

Use	Transcription system	Notes
Rising tone	International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)	Used on top of vowels (or syllabic consonants).

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Breve
• Transliteration of Arabic (Pedersen, Thomas. 2008.) has a concise list of comparisons between DIN 31635, ISO 233, ISO/R 233, UNGEGN, ALA-LC, and The Encyclopedia of Islam romanizations of Arabic.